The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-11-30

administration to be met by its successor. In
this way the financial problems OF the govern
ment have been handed down from one Ministry
20 another, the deficit between revenue and ex-
penditures constantly widening, until there is
now confronting the government the hopeless
problem of making financial ends meet without
increasing taxation reducing either the num-
Der OF public officials or their salaries.
In the machinery of government. as IN
excessive and complicated administration. In
banking. railway management. and nearly
every kind of manufacture, it requires five or
six mon to do the work of three. Consider the
number of men in uniform at every rural sta
ton. An American expert, who had served a
French petroleum pumping company IN the
Crimean district of Russia, attributed it's failure
20 the fact that there were twenty-seven in
spectors and directors in the field, with only ten
practical men who know anything about the
business of drilling and operating oil wells
branch of the French government. Official
titles and positions as blindly worshiped
under the republic as under the empire. and the
mbition of half the male population or France
Is to get into some branch of the public service.
Oo:e there, .hey will stay. for, If there is any
thing the government cannot risk doing. it is TO
months ago, the Goblet Ministry thought to
save few hundred thousand francs annually
by abolishing some prefectures, there was such
an outcry was never heard before.
"From these complicated circumstances party
warfare in France has attained degree OF bit
terness and desperation TO which even American
polltcs arcrds no parallel instead OF Two
nearly balanced national parties there ara not
only the several grades of Republicans from
Conservatives to Radicals. with substratum Of
Socialists and Anarchists but the whole is COM
plicated by guard of Monarchists. Or
leanists. Bonapartists, Legitimiats Girondists,
and Blancs d d'Espagne, each little group sulking
and scheming. while awaiting the day when its
own cherished princeling can administer the es-
tate of the republic for whose early demise they
one and all devoutly pray. Meanwhile, notwith-
ing all these poisonous drops of royal-
" in her blood. all defects in her
Constitution, aud the growing diff
fculties of her position among European
nations France is solidly and securely republic
an, and is becoming more with each success
i've election. The very number of monarchist
factions and their hatred for each other has
kept them individually powariess, while the
men who lived under Louis Philippe and the en-
pire passing away and new generation has
come upon the scene. OF kings and emperors
France has had more than enough. She has vet
to learn that there limits to the paternal
functions of republic, and that the complicated
and expensive machinery which has been inner
tied from centuries of extravagant royalty is
not only useless. but dangerous to a government
of the people. by the people, for the people. To
proclaim republic on the ruins of the empire
was easy, but to teach a nation with Latin
blood in its veins to be rebubcan-this is the
elaborate and difficult process which France has
now in hRnu."